Nicole Biddinger - Tri County Technology Center

CareerTech launches Nicole Biddinger into the study of health and disease research.

Nicole Biddinger

THEN: A biotech engineering course at Tri County Technology Center allowed Bartlesville High School senior Nicole to combine her love of biology and engineering principles. By signing up for TCTC course, which also includes medicine and biosciences, Nicole

Confirmed her major in college – biology with an emphasis on health and disease research.

Earned an internship at Oklahoma State University in the zoology lab, where she studied the effect of climate change on the genetic evolution of water fleas.

Discovered joy in serving others as chapter president of the student organization HOSA while providing a Christmas celebration at a local homeless shelter.

NOW: Nicole is continuing her education at Purdue University to study biology-health and disease. Her plans – to attend graduate school and pursue a career in research with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the National Institutes of Health – include combining her love of science and medicine with the joy she found in helping others.